ASPEN MAGAZINE No. 8, Fall-Winter [1970-1971]. Edited by Dan Graham, designed by George Maciunas.

NEW YORK: Aspen Communications, 1970.

Contains all items except the Aspen Subscription Form (i.e. 13 of 14 Items).

(1) Folder. Printed with editorial note, table of contents, and brief biographies of contributing artists. Cover painting by Jo Baer. Is item one and encloses the other sections.

(2) In Place of a Lecture. Three Musics for Two Voices. Text by Eleanor Antin and David Antin.

(3) Hot / Cold Book. Book of terms describing similar and opposite physical properties, and hierarchies among them. By Terry Atkinson and Michael Baldwin.

(4) 1 + 1 for One Player and Amplified Table-Top. A musical score by Philip Glass.

(5) Phonograph recording. Jackson LacLow / La Monte Young. Side A: Young Turtle Asymmetries by Jackson MacLow, chance-generated poems for five simultaneous readers, explained in item 10. Side B: Drift Study 31 1 69 by La Monte Young, explained in item 7.

(6) Lead Shot, a description of a sculptural project by Richard Serra. Reverse: Pendulum Music, by Steve Reich, a description of an audio study.

(7) Notes on Continuous Periodic Composite Sound Waveform Environment Realizations. Notes on oscillating drones, by La Monte Young. Phonograph recording at item 5.

(8) Three Distributions. "People Plan,"schematic drawings; "Lecture on moving," text; and, on the reverse side, "Selection of Slides from 'North East Passing'," photos. By Yvonne Rainer.

(9) Art & Vision: Mach Bands. Essay on physiological rules of perception, by Jo Baer.

(10) Introduction to the Young Turtle Asymmetries. Description of chance-generated poems for simultaneous performance, by Jackson MacLow, with text on five detachable cards. Phonograph recording at item 5.

(11) Ecologic Projects. Including "Cancelled Crop," by Dennis Oppenheim. Reverse: "Los Angeles Project," by Robert Morris; "Forest Project" and "Notes on Ecologic Projects" by Dennis Oppenheim. Descriptions of several large-scale environmental works.

(12) Strata a Geophotographic Fiction. Text by Robert Smithson.

(13) Parking Lot. Cover title: Detail of Surface. From Thirtyfour Parking Lots (1967) by Edward Ruscha.

(14) Aspen subscription form (lacking - not included).

ASPEN MAGAZINE #8 is commonly referred to as the Fluxus Issue because of the involvement of George Maciunas and other artists who were part of the 1960s and 1970s Fluxus art movement.

CONDITION:

The folder is in only FAIR condition, it has toning, offsetting, creases from handling, and a dark spill to the bottom corner of the rear cover that affects the fold-open middle section of the inner recto page and, to a lesser extent, the bottom front corner of the front cover and its verso; nonetheless the folder is solid, with text that is fully legible, and is doing its job.

The 13 loose items in the folder are in VERY GOOD condition, just some toning and light signs of handling to a few items, overall they are bright, clean, clear and unmarked; lovely.

George Mciunas, Edward Ruscha, Richard Serra, Steve Reich, Philip Glass, La Monte Young. Enough said!

Thanks to ubu web for its presentation of all the items in Aspen Magazine #8.